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KASAN: use-after-free Read in reiserfs_lookup

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/05/05 21:47
Reported-by: syzbot+2817accd49eceb02b321@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 6d23h, last: 6d23h
Similar bugs (2)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request in reiserfs_lookup fs 19 12 1188d 1219d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/06/09 14:19
upstream BUG: corrupted list in reiserfs_lookup fs 19 3 974d 1014d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/12/10 09:27

Sample crash report:
loop1: detected capacity change from 0 to 64
==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in reiserfs_write_lock+0x58/0xd0 fs/reiserfs/lock.c:26
Read of size 8 at addr ffff888051ac0ab8 by task syz.1.8850/24438

CPU: 1 PID: 24438 Comm: syz.1.8850 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 04/18/2026
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl+0x188/0x24e lib/dump_stack.c:106
 print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:316 [inline]
 print_report+0xa8/0x210 mm/kasan/report.c:420
 kasan_report+0x10b/0x140 mm/kasan/report.c:524
 reiserfs_write_lock+0x58/0xd0 fs/reiserfs/lock.c:26
 reiserfs_lookup+0x18a/0x480 fs/reiserfs/namei.c:364
 lookup_one_qstr_excl+0x10e/0x240 fs/namei.c:1613
 do_renameat2+0x4bf/0xce0 fs/namei.c:4985
 __do_sys_rename fs/namei.c:5081 [inline]
 __se_sys_rename fs/namei.c:5079 [inline]
 __x64_sys_rename+0x82/0x90 fs/namei.c:5079
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:76
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2
RIP: 0033:0x7f0ed479cdd9
Code: ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 e8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007f0ed565c028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000052
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f0ed4a15fa0 RCX: 00007f0ed479cdd9
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000200000000a00 RDI: 00002000000009c0
RBP: 00007f0ed4832d69 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f0ed4a16038 R14: 00007f0ed4a15fa0 R15: 00007ffd99747148
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 4477:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:46 [inline]
 kasan_set_track+0x4b/0x70 mm/kasan/common.c:53
 ____kasan_kmalloc mm/kasan/common.c:375 [inline]
 __kasan_kmalloc+0x8e/0xa0 mm/kasan/common.c:384
 kasan_kmalloc include/linux/kasan.h:211 [inline]
 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slab_common.c:936 [inline]
 __kmalloc+0xb0/0x240 mm/slab_common.c:949
 kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:568 [inline]
 kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:699 [inline]
 cfg80211_inform_single_bss_frame_data net/wireless/scan.c:2478 [inline]
 cfg80211_inform_bss_frame_data+0x69d/0x1390 net/wireless/scan.c:2539
 ieee80211_bss_info_update+0x738/0xc80 net/mac80211/scan.c:190
 ieee80211_rx_bss_info net/mac80211/ibss.c:1120 [inline]
 ieee80211_rx_mgmt_probe_beacon net/mac80211/ibss.c:1609 [inline]
 ieee80211_ibss_rx_queued_mgmt+0x189d/0x2cd0 net/mac80211/ibss.c:1638
 ieee80211_iface_process_skb net/mac80211/iface.c:1679 [inline]
 ieee80211_iface_work+0x726/0xc80 net/mac80211/iface.c:1733
 cfg80211_wiphy_work+0x221/0x260 net/wireless/core.c:433
 process_one_work+0x8a2/0x1160 kernel/workqueue.c:2292
 worker_thread+0xaa2/0x1270 kernel/workqueue.c:2439
 kthread+0x29d/0x330 kernel/kthread.c:376
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:295

Freed by task 6658:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:46 [inline]
 kasan_set_track+0x4b/0x70 mm/kasan/common.c:53
 kasan_save_free_info+0x2d/0x50 mm/kasan/generic.c:516
 ____kasan_slab_free+0x126/0x1e0 mm/kasan/common.c:237
 kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:177 [inline]
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:1729 [inline]
 slab_free_freelist_hook+0x131/0x1a0 mm/slub.c:1755
 slab_free mm/slub.c:3687 [inline]
 kmem_cache_free_bulk+0x348/0x460 mm/slub.c:3805
 kfree_bulk include/linux/slab.h:475 [inline]
 kfree_rcu_work+0x33f/0x890 kernel/rcu/tree.c:3091
 process_one_work+0x8a2/0x1160 kernel/workqueue.c:2292
 worker_thread+0xaa2/0x1270 kernel/workqueue.c:2439
 kthread+0x29d/0x330 kernel/kthread.c:376
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:295

Last potentially related work creation:
 kasan_save_stack+0x3a/0x60 mm/kasan/common.c:46
 __kasan_record_aux_stack+0xb2/0xc0 mm/kasan/generic.c:486
 kvfree_call_rcu+0x103/0x870 kernel/rcu/tree.c:3405
 cfg80211_update_known_bss+0x178/0xa20 net/wireless/scan.c:-1
 cfg80211_bss_update+0x15f/0x2250 net/wireless/scan.c:1847
 cfg80211_inform_single_bss_frame_data net/wireless/scan.c:2506 [inline]
 cfg80211_inform_bss_frame_data+0x9ec/0x1390 net/wireless/scan.c:2539
 ieee80211_bss_info_update+0x738/0xc80 net/mac80211/scan.c:190
 ieee80211_rx_bss_info net/mac80211/ibss.c:1120 [inline]
 ieee80211_rx_mgmt_probe_beacon net/mac80211/ibss.c:1609 [inline]
 ieee80211_ibss_rx_queued_mgmt+0x189d/0x2cd0 net/mac80211/ibss.c:1638
 ieee80211_iface_process_skb net/mac80211/iface.c:1679 [inline]
 ieee80211_iface_work+0x726/0xc80 net/mac80211/iface.c:1733
 cfg80211_wiphy_work+0x221/0x260 net/wireless/core.c:433
 process_one_work+0x8a2/0x1160 kernel/workqueue.c:2292
 worker_thread+0xaa2/0x1270 kernel/workqueue.c:2439
 kthread+0x29d/0x330 kernel/kthread.c:376
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:295

Second to last potentially related work creation:
 kasan_save_stack+0x3a/0x60 mm/kasan/common.c:46
 __kasan_record_aux_stack+0xb2/0xc0 mm/kasan/generic.c:486
 kvfree_call_rcu+0x103/0x870 kernel/rcu/tree.c:3405
 cfg80211_update_known_bss+0x178/0xa20 net/wireless/scan.c:-1
 cfg80211_bss_update+0x15f/0x2250 net/wireless/scan.c:1847
 cfg80211_inform_single_bss_frame_data net/wireless/scan.c:2506 [inline]
 cfg80211_inform_bss_frame_data+0x9ec/0x1390 net/wireless/scan.c:2539
 ieee80211_bss_info_update+0x738/0xc80 net/mac80211/scan.c:190
 ieee80211_rx_bss_info net/mac80211/ibss.c:1120 [inline]
 ieee80211_rx_mgmt_probe_beacon net/mac80211/ibss.c:1609 [inline]
 ieee80211_ibss_rx_queued_mgmt+0x189d/0x2cd0 net/mac80211/ibss.c:1638
 ieee80211_iface_process_skb net/mac80211/iface.c:1679 [inline]
 ieee80211_iface_work+0x726/0xc80 net/mac80211/iface.c:1733
 cfg80211_wiphy_work+0x221/0x260 net/wireless/core.c:433
 process_one_work+0x8a2/0x1160 kernel/workqueue.c:2292
 worker_thread+0xaa2/0x1270 kernel/workqueue.c:2439
 kthread+0x29d/0x330 kernel/kthread.c:376
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:295

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff888051ac0a80
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-96 of size 96
The buggy address is located 56 bytes inside of
 96-byte region [ffff888051ac0a80, ffff888051ac0ae0)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page:ffffea000146b000 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x51ac0
flags: 0xfff00000000200(slab|node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
raw: 00fff00000000200 0000000000000000 dead000000000001 ffff888017441780
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000200020 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
page_owner tracks the page as allocated
page last allocated via order 0, migratetype Unmovable, gfp_mask 0x112a20(GFP_ATOMIC|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_HARDWALL), pid 4259, tgid 4259 (kworker/1:3), ts 80683118742, free_ts 23264687073
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:31 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook+0x173/0x1a0 mm/page_alloc.c:2559
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:2566 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0x1a1e/0x1ab0 mm/page_alloc.c:4357
 __alloc_pages+0x1ec/0x4f0 mm/page_alloc.c:5657
 __alloc_pages_node include/linux/gfp.h:237 [inline]
 alloc_slab_page+0x4f/0x160 mm/slub.c:1801
 allocate_slab mm/slub.c:1944 [inline]
 new_slab+0x87/0x2c0 mm/slub.c:1997
 ___slab_alloc+0xbc6/0x1240 mm/slub.c:3154
 __slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3240 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3325 [inline]
 __kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x1a0/0x260 mm/slub.c:3398
 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slab_common.c:935 [inline]
 __kmalloc_node+0xa0/0x240 mm/slab_common.c:943
 kmalloc_array_node include/linux/slab.h:676 [inline]
 kcalloc_node include/linux/slab.h:681 [inline]
 memcg_alloc_slab_cgroups+0x83/0x120 mm/memcontrol.c:2889
 account_slab mm/slab.h:635 [inline]
 allocate_slab mm/slub.c:1962 [inline]
 new_slab+0xc3/0x2c0 mm/slub.c:1997
 ___slab_alloc+0xbc6/0x1240 mm/slub.c:3154
 __slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3240 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3325 [inline]
 slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3367 [inline]
 __kmem_cache_alloc_lru mm/slub.c:3374 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc+0x1b7/0x2f0 mm/slub.c:3383
 dst_alloc+0x101/0x160 net/core/dst.c:88
 ip6_dst_alloc net/ipv6/route.c:345 [inline]
 icmp6_dst_alloc+0x7f/0x460 net/ipv6/route.c:3309
 mld_sendpack+0x703/0xdc0 net/ipv6/mcast.c:1814
 mld_send_cr net/ipv6/mcast.c:2126 [inline]
 mld_ifc_work+0x836/0xb40 net/ipv6/mcast.c:2658
page last free stack trace:
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:24 [inline]
 free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1486 [inline]
 free_pcp_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1536 [inline]
 free_unref_page_prepare+0x8b4/0x9a0 mm/page_alloc.c:3413
 free_unref_page+0x2e/0x3f0 mm/page_alloc.c:3508
 free_contig_range+0x9d/0x150 mm/page_alloc.c:9625
 destroy_args+0xf0/0xa0a mm/debug_vm_pgtable.c:1031
 debug_vm_pgtable+0x33c/0x38e mm/debug_vm_pgtable.c:1359
 do_one_initcall+0x26a/0x840 init/main.c:1310
 do_initcall_level+0x137/0x1e4 init/main.c:1383
 do_initcalls+0x4b/0x8a init/main.c:1399
 kernel_init_freeable+0x415/0x5be init/main.c:1638
 kernel_init+0x19/0x1b0 init/main.c:1526
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:295

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff888051ac0980: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fc fc fc fc
 ffff888051ac0a00: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 fc fc fc fc
>ffff888051ac0a80: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fc fc fc fc
                                        ^
 ffff888051ac0b00: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fc fc fc fc
 ffff888051ac0b80: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fc fc fc fc
==================================================================

Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/05/05 21:47 linux-6.1.y 4931e0e1673d 26da2c66 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in reiserfs_lookup
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.